I'm wondering how many successful Steemians "made it" the hard way? Steemit and crypto mining is really for those who speak and write code.
A simple search for "upvote bot" will show you that there are ways to mine hardcore. I read one user created 150 bot accounts to upvote his posts and get it in the "hot" section. He concludes that it is just to show that it can be done, so the problem can be fixed. Really? Maybe. Or do users continue to use such tools to benefit from?
I really get why. These guys speak the language and use it to their advantage. I'm sure they put a lot of work in it to reap the benefits. If I had a coder brain, I'd probably hop on board, too.
However, this is one reason that Steemit will probably never be mainstream. You have equally hard working writers that put hours in their posts and because they can't write any code or have buddies that can, they'll make chump change.
I look at the "whats hot" or "whats trending" and I wonder how many of those guys are using bots as well? It's not that there aren't users that also upvote, but the coders/hackers can manipulate the view as more people upvote for already highly upvoted content, thinking the reward will be greater.
I don't know. Thinking about it, it's kind of a downer. What do you guys think? Is it right? Is it going to help Steemit or be it's downfall?